The 5 Year Mark

Hi, welcome to eightface.com (or not if you’re a feed junkie), I’ve been doing this for awhile now. About half a decade, that’s a long time in dog years. If you’re pissy and want to get technical (ie. whois LOLZ!!1!), eightface.com has only existed since August 16, 2000, but the weblog has been going strong since May 9th, 2000.

Around that time I discovered Blogger and thought it was man’s greatest creation since the waffle iron. Until that point I had been updating various versions of my sites through the wonderful ftp process. In hindsight, I could have used a shell account, but they were only available on more expensive hosting plans back in the day.

FTP is great, but was hard to update from someone else’s machine because no one usually had a client installed. Blogger meant I had a nice easy-to-use web interface that I could login to from anywhere. Somewhere along the lines, there was a period of instability for Pyra and Blogger, so I felt the need to host the database in my server space, with my own content management system. I started using Movable Type in March 2002. And continued to use it for a number of years, before switching to WordPress in January of this year.

It’s been awhile. I started it at the end of high-school, I’m now about to graduate from university for the second time. It’s a different world, both on the web and off. No one had link blogs, every weblog used to be a bunch of quick one-off links and a paragraph or so describing what was going on. But posts started getting longer as people started becoming more comfortable and perhaps more eloquent. We never used to have a title field for posts. Back then, Bush and Iraq were so 10 years ago. This post is now almost over and I may attempt to wait another 5 years before writing such lengthy and self-indulgent filth.

That’s about it. Except for the incredibly self-indulgent part — the pimping of some recent additions to the weblog: